Adventures in Mamboland
"Jazz Fish, a saxophone playing wanderer, finds himself in Mamboland at a critical phase in his life." --Howie Green, on his book Jazz Fish Zen
Yeah. That sounds about right.
Yeah. That sounds about right.
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Date: 2011-09-06 03:48 pm (UTC)See, here's the thing: the reason these requests are getting ignored or rejected is because it's incredibly expensive to retrofit a site for accessibility, and the only people it will benefit are the small number of disabled people using the site. Right?
Only that's incredibly wrongheaded. Everyone's disabled at some point or another, as far as your website is concerned. You on a crappy phone? Disabled. Laptop with a shit trackpad? Disabled. SSH session where you can only use Lynx? Disabled.
Got a unit-test suite? It's disabled. How can it tell which picture is which? Using a site fifteen years from now when all your shitty plugins are abandoned? Wow are you disabled. You really think Flash will still be around and backwards-compatible in 2026?
The issue isn't accessibility, it's compatibility. Everyone benefits from an internet that works across all platforms. I hate the short-sighted motherfuckers that don't see that.